• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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Partly in response to Mikes plea for "actual woodworking" here is a gate I made recently:


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And another more utilitarian made from pallet wood:

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But it seems I still have the rotational problem. Can anyone point me in the direction of a fix for this?
 
Nick, at the top of each forum board is an announcements section. Each one contains a guide to hosting images and a few things you can try to get them the right way round. This doesn't seem to work for all devices on all platforms. There is work in progress going on in the background to try and solve this.

The mods here can rotate the images after posting. Members could use the same technique by previewing their post before posting.

He is what to do.
If a image is not orientated correctly in preview copy/download the actual image back to your device. Open it in an image editor and rotate it. Then save it. Upload this image back to your post and delete the one only previously there.

I will correct the above ones for you now.
HTH
 
Thanks Andy. I did try to rotate the images on my machine to compensate but it still didn't work.....that really confused me.
 
Ok Nick thanks for trying. Things are being worked on but don't hold your breath for an eta quite yet.
 
There is what I believe to be a foolproof method to getting pictures the correct way round irrespective of platform(s) you use

Open each photo and if needed rotate them to the desired orientation. Do a screen grab of the photo and save it to a new location. repeat for all photos. At the same time you can usually crop the photos if desired too.

Upload to the forum from the new location.

Bob
 
What do you mean by screen grab Bob? I did try to rotate and save in a different folder but got the same result.
 
Nick,
I do not know what platform you are on but if Windows then I believe it is called the snipping tool.
I am on a Mac so I have no experience on windows but there are plenty of tutorials on youtube.

If you are on a Mac than do alt, shift and 4. A cursor will appear which can be dragged over the screen as required. The resulting screenshot will appear on the desktop.

HTH
 
Andyp":3oka1l66 said:
Nick,
I do not know what platform you are on but if Windows then I believe it is called the snipping tool.
I am on a Mac so I have no experience on windows but there are plenty of tutorials on youtube.

If you are on a Mac than do alt, shift and 4. A cursor will appear which can be dragged over the screen as required. The resulting screenshot will appear on the desktop.

HTH
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Windows 7 calls it the snipping tool and the icon looks like a pair of scissors
Windows 10 calls it snip and sketch and the icon is a twin peak mountain range

With both you move the cursor to one corner of the area you want to select, press and hold whilst dragging to the diagonally opposite corner. Then save as a new file.

Bob
 
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hallelujah! Thanks Andy I looked up snipping tool and it worked.

The gate is made from reclaimed "mahogany" that was used to make handrails on some steps leading down to the river Tyne. When they dismantled the railings they chucked this wood in the bushes! It was just under 4 inches square in section in 6 foot lengths, I had to have it. What was I doing in the bushes by the river Tyne you ask, looking for Mahogany..........
 
Nearly there Nick,
Use that snipping tool to just select the image rather than your whole screen.

Bob explained how above
...you move the cursor to one corner of the area you want to select, press and hold whilst dragging to the diagonally opposite corner. Then save as a new file.
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Sorry Nick with all the talk of image orientation I forgot to say that I like those gates a lot. Good job.
 
Thanks all. When I installed the "posh" gate I used some wooden wedges to fix it at the right height in the opening. I though it was secure enough and looked for a tape measure or spirit level to check things and there was a gust of wind and the gate fell onto the concrete steps. There was a few moments of disbelief and then lots of swearing. The top of one of the palings was torn badly. I walked away from the job and came back to it a few hours later. After I had hung it the following day and done a few repairs it looked fine and my eye wasn't drawn to the damage anymore. What a relief. I had been so careful in the making of it.
 
pitch pine":2foqg5ga said:
Thanks all. When I installed the "posh" gate I used some wooden wedges to fix it at the right height in the opening. I though it was secure enough and looked for a tape measure or spirit level to check things and there was a gust of wind and the gate fell onto the concrete steps. There was a few moments of disbelief and then lots of swearing. The top of one of the palings was torn badly. I walked away from the job and came back to it a few hours later. After I had hung it the following day and done a few repairs it looked fine and my eye wasn't drawn to the damage anymore. What a relief. I had been so careful in the making of it.
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Palings...?
 
great use of pallet wood! with what it costs at the moment that's a very sensible choice, they turned out looking nice.
 
Thanks. The gates are actually in Portishead North Somerset not Stonehaugh which is close to Hadrian's Wall (4 miles as the crow flies). I built them for my partners sister. The posh gate was built in Northumberland and taken down in the car, whilst the pallet gate was made on impulse out of what was lying around. She had a firewood delivery that came in a pallet that was broken down and there were some bits of 4x1.5 softwood that I used for the ledges and braces. If anything I got more pleasure from making that gate. Cutting the mortises in the other one was hard work. Every time I do mortises by hand I think about getting a mortiser, but after a while I forget the hassle. I used Peri's dowel plate to make the pins to draw bore the joints.
 
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